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  They returned from their walk, which had ranged all over the grounds surrounding Scone. From a distant hill they were awarded a spectacular view of the castle amidst the expansive lands of the Duke. These were the battlegrounds upon which the wars of Scottish feudalism and later of Scottish independence from England had been fought. Now, these two modern soldiers for a different cause surveyed the battleground of their own clandestine venture, which would be a war fought not by kilted Scottish armies, but by three determined individuals without identities.